sprayed

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Aerial footage filmed by local TV stations on Friday showed jets of water being sprayed at the tank, which has a capacity of 34,000 gallons.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Wearers, often young men, get people to sign fake petitions or retail workers to smell candles sprayed with bad odours.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

You can shop organic food and grow your own tomatoes, but a stiff breeze can blow the Roundup your neighbor sprayed on his lawn directly into your face.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

The farmers did what they always did: They sprayed and sprayed, chemicals and pesticides, stuff so powerful that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

In the last half century alone, it has survived having a rock thrown at it, red paint sprayed at it, and a teacup hurled at it.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day